rummage sale
Example Sentences
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Bull remembers a conversation she had decades ago with a volunteer at a rummage sale at an Episcopal church in New Orleans where she was helping the church raise funds to build a labyrinth.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023
Everything inside the beach shack was tagged and priced, just like a rummage sale.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2023
The scene on a recent Friday at a Greenwich Village townhouse was like a cross between an art opening and a rummage sale.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022
The squad feels like a choice rummage sale, full of young and expensive pieces that never quite fit together and that will do far better wherever they find new homes.
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2019
I pictured them elbowing each other as if at a church rummage sale.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
